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Everything Wrong With Donald Trump

Okay, so maybe not everything.

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Everything Wrong With Donald Trump
Oliver Willis

With Tuesday being the big day, ELECTION DAY, now is the final chance to look back over the past 1-2 years, to think and to finally lock in your decision on who you are going to vote for. Who are you going to vote for? While it has been a close race so far, and many are saying neither candidate is fit for president, the following are just a few (or thirty-six, to be exact) reasons as to why I will not be casting my vote to Donald Trump in the upcoming election.


1. Trump is known as this great business man, but had he placed his inheritance thirty years ago into a stock index fund, he could have been worth $10 billion more today.

2. Speaking of failed business ventures, Trump has had quite a few, including Trump Airlines, Trump Vodka, Trump Casinos, Trump: The Game, Trump Steaks, and Trump University.

3. Trump says he's worth $10 billion. Forbes says he's worth $3.7 billion.

4. "You know, it really doesn't matter what the media write as long as you've got a young, and beautiful, piece of ass." -Donald J. Trump

5. Trump called global warming "a hoax."

6. "Look at my African American over here." -Donald J. Trump

7. While many gun-free zones serve for the purpose of school areas, Trump has stated that he would like to eliminate these zones in some cases.

8. While 35 mass shootings have occurred in the United States over the past 7 years, Trump said that he would "defend the Second Amendment with no caveats."

9. Despite global warming's threat to ecosystems, rural communities, and the survival of a variety of species, Trump instead addressed his own preferred temperature of the environment, saying, "It's freezing and snowing in New York -- we need global warming!"

10. Can we talk about how ambiguous, general, and never properly defined the slogan "Make America Great Again" is?

11. Trump's website states, "Together, we are bringing back the American Dream."

Please define the American Dream, Donald.

12. "I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her." -Donald J. Trump

13. Trump's website states, "Donald J. Trump is the very definition of the American success story."

Yes, if the definition of the American success story that we are expected to uphold is borrowing a loan of $1 million from your father, as well as borrowing a total of $9 million over the years from your inheritance when you run into financial trouble.

14. Trump's website boasts that "'You're fired!' is listed as the third greatest television catchphrase of all time."

But is that really a good thing?

15. In April 2015, Trump tweeted, "Our great African-American president hasn't exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore."

Not only is he saying that Obama's ethnicity directly influences his work in this matter, but he is also equating "African American" with "thug."

16.Trump spent an estimated $1 million on researching how to become president.

17. "All of the women on 'The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously and unconsciously. That's to be expected." - Donald J. Trump

Cue the narcissism and misogyny.

18. Remember how everyone was worried that those personal emails of Clinton's would end up in the wrong hands?

Trump blatantly said during a news conference in July, "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing."

19. After the mass shooting in Orlando where 49 people were killed, Trump tweeted, "Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don't want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be smart!"

Amidst remembering those who were lost, Trump somehow slipped a praising word in there about himself.

20. Trump mocked reporter Serge Kovaleski at a rally in November 2015 for the reporter's disability that hinders the movement in his arms.

21. Trump issued a statement saying, "Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims from entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."

The problem isn't the Islamic religion, Donald.

22. "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best. They're not sending you, they're sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems with them. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists...And some, I assume, are good people." -Donald J. Trump

More racist comments? Check.

23. About Russian President Vladimir Putin's killing journalists, political opponents and invading countries, Trump said, "He's running his country, and at least he's a leader, unlike what we have in this country."

Remember how he said he was a supporter of the Second Amendment? Well, if he supports these actions, it appears he forgot the rest of the Constitution in the process.

24. "If I were running 'The View,' I'd fire Rosie O'Donnell. I mean, I'd look at her right in that fat, ugly face of hers, I'd say, 'Rosie, you're fired.'" -Donald J. Trump

Not only is this hatred of Rosie getting old, but he just had to call her "fat" and "ugly." Because that's the way you want a 70-year-old billionaire who is running for president to insult his enemies. Not to mention that that's a great mental influence for young citizens going through self esteem issues, to hear a presidential candidate call someone "fat" and "ugly."

25. Also, what's his big deal with Rosie O'Donnell anyway?

I loved her in Now and Then. That was my movie.

26. "I think the only difference between me and the other candidates is that I'm more honest and my women are more beautiful." -Donald J. Trump

Yes, because women are possessions that you can own, Donald.

27. Politifact stated that they had found 70 percent of Trump's claims to be false.

28. "I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich." -Donald J. Trump

29. "He's not a war hero...He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured," Trump said about John McCain, who was tortured as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.

30. Trump dismissed the video leaked of his making several derogatory and sexual-assault-oriented comments towards women as "locker room talk."

31. "It's hard for them to attack me on good looks, because I'm so good looking." -Donald J. Trump

32. "This is a country where we speak English - not Spanish." -Donald J. Trump

Although it was reported in June 2015 that the United States now has more Spanish speakers than Spain.

33. "Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?" Trump said about candidate Carly Fiorina.

34. "I have a great relationship with the blacks." -Donald J. Trump

35. "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters." -Donald J. Trump

36. "If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?" -Donald J. Trump

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